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TYBEE ISLAND, GA – In February 1958, a military training exercise went terribly wrong. A B-47 Bomber and F 86 Fighter Plane collided above Tybee Island, GA. The crew had to offload a 7,600 pound Mark 15 nuclear bomb before it could land at Hunter Army Airfield.

The bomb has never been found. Mickey Youmans remembers February 5, 1958 and the search efforts that followed like it was yesterday. “I was a kid when I saw it. There were divers; there was a pelican ship, all these boats. People and stuff everywhere looking for this thing.” It stems from a military training accident. “It was a practice mission with a bad piece of equipment and it caused the collision,” Youmans tells WJCL.com. “The Tactical Air Command was flying F 86’s and was intercepting them to practice shooting down enemy bombers.” According to documents obtained by WJCL.com the B 47 had to unload the 7,600 pound bomb off the coast of Tybee before it could land at Hunter Army Airfield. The bomb has never been found and that has many people including Youmans worried. “I’ve been lied to my whole life and I didn’t like it…by people who said there was no reason to worry.”